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JOB KARMA Newson / 98 Mhz to Extinction

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Job Karma is one of Klanggalerie’s favourite bands. Maciek Frett and Aureliusz Pisarzewski who also organize the Wroclaw Industrial Festival in Poland every November have created a unique sound that is live also accompanied by stunning visuals. Newson was the band’s second album released in 2001 and is long sold out. It is less rhythmic than more recent works and has instead a very haunting dark ambience with eerie sound effects. The 98 Mhz to Extinction CDR was released one year later in a micro edition of only 121 copies. Newly remastered we bring back the early days of this exceptional Ambient- Industrial group that will become more and more important in the European Industrial scene. Track list: 1. Ascension 2. Schekle 3. Moruz 4. November 5. 1913 6. Extinction 7. 98 Mhz To Extinction. Price: € 9,-/copy incl worldwide shipping.

It’s impossible not to note that it sounds a bit different than the music from the following albums by Maciek and Aureliusz. I’m not here to deal in clichés like “the style of Job Karma already germinated to full blossom on “Ebola” or “Tschernobyl””, because it’s not true. At least not entirely. They established their sound at the very beginning, on “Cycles Per Second”. Later on they were just polishing it. The musical form was refined, while the content was left more or less unchanged. When you’d try to compare “Newson” and let’s say “Punkt”, you’d recognize the difference almost immediately, but at the same time it was easy to notice they were recorded by one and the same project. Each subsequent album turned out to be more, I’d say, rampant. “Newson” compared to later materials comes off rather ascetic, as it consists mainly of gloomy low-frequency backgrounds, bleak passages generated by analog synths, subtle inclusions straight from old school industrial, and a whole lot of samples. Yet at the same time “Newson” is actually deprived of the dynamics characteristic of many of their other pieces. Rhythmic layering however is present, despite not being placed in the foreground. “Newson” pulses unhurriedly rather than beating on the kidneys. Plus this minimalism mentioned above, virtually without catchy melodies or an invitation to dance. Sometimes “Newson” draws quite near to the masters of musical horror (not necessarily in the literal form) – the landscape, which Job Karma offers to our imagination without doubt can’t be described as “encouraging”.(Santa Sangre, November 2013)